People Create

We’re back. This time we speak to people who have, in their own way, been there, done that. 

We speak to creatives, we speak to academics, we speak to business people, we speak to business people that became academics. 

Now, having climbed their mountains, the question remains the same - what does creativity mean to you?

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A look back at Series 1 of our show. Series 2 coming soon!

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John is a screenwriter and I have seen two sides of him.

He can be a snake on cocaine. During improv he has the ability to create sensory whiplash with his bolting around from one idea to another. I would know. I was his hands.

But John is also a lilting Irishman, taking his time in his distinctive drawl to tell his very specific, very human truths. I didn’t often get to see the second John. I was lucky to talk to him today.

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Matthew lives for the screen.

He thinks in the three act structure, life to him is an album he’s writing. I met him at the National Film and Television School. We did improv together.

His ability to create has taken him to the best film school in the world, who knows where else it will take him but, for now, it has brought him here.

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Parham makes games. He’s good at it, too. His most recent game was nominated for a BAFTA. Pretty big stuff. He’s also a goofball full of awful dad jokes, a love for How I met your Mother and horror movies of the psychological variety. In a world of shifting sands and changeable attitudes, I have found him remarkably stable. I respect that and I can see the benefits of it in what he has accomplished.

Lili is a chameleon. When I met her, she was in marketing. When we recorded this, she was a baker. When we say everyone is creative, she embodies it. She has created universes while standing for 9 hours baking bread with her co-workers. She knows how to use a chainsaw to hack a piece of wood into something beautiful on her own. For her, it’s all about the feelings.

Tom is a bastard. On the one hand he is The Bald Bastard, a meme lord influencer committed to building a well meaning, supportive community around those that have lost their hair. But on the other hand, he’s Tom. A marketing student at the National Film and Television School. He’s a live wire, he’s the man that got me into doing improv, and he seeks outlets for his vulnerability. I wonder if Tom is the Bastard or if the Bastard is Tom.

Marcus is ambitious. During the week he’s a TV producer but during the weekend he’s a wedding videographer. I love his ambition. It’s one of those unspoken things that everyone in the industry has but no one talks about. Being liked is often more important than being honest. This person wants to take on the world and has his own way of doing it.

You may like it.

You may not.

But you have to respect it.

Ben is a technical designer for games. He loves to code. Does that sound creative to you? It doesn’t matter because the iterative process of coding is where he finds his creative voice.  He’s also an Arsenal fan and when we recorded this, Arsenal were leading the premier league. He predicted they wouldn’t win. They didn’t.

We always found ourselves talking in podcasts long before I made this show and I must credit him with giving me the confidence to do it.